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Burning tents and randomly firing tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons, Turkish police cracked down on up to 10,000 peaceful protesters camped out for a week in Istanbul's Gezi Park trying to save what they argue is the city's last public green space. As is often the case in such things, the violent overreaction by police has helped the protest morph from specific environmental grievance into broader political opposition.

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Whew. That was way too close for comfort. And yeah, the country's in a sorry state to have come to this. But not only does Doug Jones become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years; his win is a blunt rejection of all the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, race-baiting, sexual-assaulting, serial lying crap of losers Moore and Trump and Bannon and their ugly ilk. Forward to mid-terms. And once and for all, to Moore in all his evil: "Fuck you and the horse you (badly) rode in on."